Global Space and the Nationalist Discourse of ModernityThis book reexamines the historical thinking of Liang Qichao (1873 1929), one of the few modern Chinese thinkers and cultural critics whose appreciation of the question of modernity was based on first hand experience of the world space in which China had to function as a nation state. It seeks to demonstrate that Liang was not only a profoundly paradigmatic modern Chinese intellectual but also an imaginative thinker of worldwide significance. By